Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Bakers, spring flowers and bought.

1. Fairly early to go to the bakers and buy cinnamon buns for elevensies.

2. She brings a bunch of tight-furled hyacinths and dark red tulips; and some daffodils bound with blue elastic bands -- 'because it ought to have some yellow in it.'

3. The smug pride with which Bettany shows me the slippers that Nick has bought for her because she asked in the supermarket.
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Kite, journey and not quite the end of the day.

1. Red kite with pie-slice tail and wing fingers splayed wheels over aluminium roofs on an industrial estate. 2. Chatting idly across the tr...

  • Bee, green beans and movie night.
    1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmi...
  • Midsummer, feeding and cakes.
    1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...
  • As needed, forgotten cake and syrup.
    1. I promised myself I wouldn't moan and grumble about it -- but I do. And as if by magic, a very kind friend produces the required blaz...